Sep 19, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) Bazel and glibc versions Imagine this scenario: your team uses Bazel for fast, distributed C++ builds. A developer builds a change on their workstation, all tests pass, and the change is merged. The CI system picks it up, ...
Sep 18, 2025 from ℤ→ℤ Emergency Software: Software Development Lessons from EMISARI On August 15th, 1971, President Nixon declared a 90-day freeze on wages, rents, and prices. The next day, the Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) was charged with implementing the Freeze. OEP la...
Sep 18, 2025 from Chuck Carroll's RSS Feed The Anatomy of an SSH Config A few years ago I published a post about aliases, one of which I set up to allow me to SSH into a shared web server. Someone shared that post to Hacker News, so naturally the gaping flaws in my und...
Sep 18, 2025 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog Moving out of AWS For years, I hosted this blog and several other services on AWS. AWS is powerful, but it is also expensive and deeply entropic. It often feels like every problem on AWS has three different services...
Sep 17, 2025 from Luke Salamone's Blog Optimal Ask Let’s say that you are selling N widgets and you need to determine a price for your widgets. There are N customers, each of whom will buy at most one widget if your price is lower than the maximum ...
Sep 17, 2025 from Luke Salamone's Blog Can a Neural Net Learn It? A neural network is a type of function originally inspired by how the brain works. However, what makes it particularly useful in machine learning are the following properties: Neural networks can a...
Sep 16, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog Think Globally, Discuss PL Locally In-person meetings are hugely beneficial for academic research; they provide a venue to collaborate and connect, making our community more connected and facilitating the exchange of ideas. In addit...
Sep 15, 2025 from fasterthanli.me Making our own spectrogram A couple months ago I made a loudness meter and went way too in-depth into how humans have measured loudness over time. Today we’re looking at a spectrogram visualization I made, which is a lot mor...
Sep 15, 2025 from Virtuwise Why Jack Dorsey bets on stories over strategy Jack Dorsey unpacks why storytelling—not code—shapes tech, culture, and the platforms we live on.
Sep 15, 2025 from Michael Lynch I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing, the classic Windows development blog. No, he didn’t ...
Sep 15, 2025 from BattlePenguin Transgender Shooters, Flags and Troop Deployments Last month, a shooter opened fire in a Catholic church. The immediate backstory of the shooter being transgender fit the current social fears of ideological conservatives. Almost immediately, news ...
Sep 15, 2025 from unixdigest.com How I manage my bookmarks Bookmarks are great, but just as much as I need them, I also find them dismal.
Sep 14, 2025 from Virtuwise Food for Thought: How Our Diets Are Making Us Fat New study reveals diet, not lack of exercise, is primary cause of obesity, challenging conventional wisdom on health and wellness.
Sep 13, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software It's Always a Physical Layer Problem When I moved a few years ago I needed to re-think my networking architecture. At the old place I ran a lot of Cat6 cable to various access points and that provided a decent amount of coverage. The ...
Sep 12, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) Trusting builds with Bazel remote execution The previous article on Bazel remote caching concluded that using just a remote cache for Bazel builds was suboptimal due to limitations in what can and cannot be cached for security reasons. The r...
Sep 12, 2025 from fasterthanli.me crates.io phishing attempt Earlier this week, an npm supply chain attack. It’s turn for crates.io, the main public repository for Rust crates (packages). The phishing e-mail looks like this: Andrew Gallant on BlueSky And it ...
Sep 12, 2025 from Virtuwise Nvidia's Pivot: From Cloud Competitor to Chip Supplier Nvidia steps back from cloud computing, rethinking its strategy to compete with AWS and other cloud giants.
Sep 09, 2025 from SIGPLAN Blog The Reserve Reviewer Policy The Reserve Reviewer Policy is an experimental policy to help conferences scale to increased workloads. We outline its design and first implementation.
Sep 09, 2025 from Tim Hårek A year with Go August last year a coworker asked me if we could use Go for an upcoming project, integrating an invoice system to an ERP. We had been using mostly Node and Deno with TypeScript for all our needs to...
Sep 09, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 9 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
